Regulations and general guidelines

Statistics Sweden issues regulations that are published in Statistics Sweden’s Code of Statutes (SCB-FS). This Code of Statutes also contains regulations for the National Institute of Economic Research, the National Mediation Office and Swedish Agency for Cultural Policy concerning submission of data to statistical surveys.

The regulations in Statistics Sweden’s Code of Statutes are arranged under data collection, Consumer Price Index and official statistics. The regulations are binding, which means they constitute legal rules that govern how individuals and government agencies are to act.

The general guidelines comprise overall recommendations on how to apply statutes. These recommendations specify how someone may or should act in a certain case.